Yelang, also known as Yelang Kingdom, was a country in the so-called Southwest Yizhong during the Han Dynasty of China, located in Zunyi, Guizhou Province today. Records about the Yelang Kingdom are mainly found in "Historical Records: Biographies of Southwest Yi". According to archaeological data, it is generally believed that it already existed in China's Warring States Period. "Historical Records" records that Yelang was the largest country in the southwestern barbarians at that time. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Tang Meng as an envoy to South Vietnam because he intended to attack the South Vietnam Kingdom. He discovered that there was wolfberry paste produced in Shu locally and learned that it came from Yelang. , so he wrote to Emperor Wu that he could use Yelang to control South Vietnam. Therefore, Emperor Wu sent Tang Meng to envoy Yelang. He met with his leader Yelanghou Duotong and generously gave him property. He agreed to set up county officials in the local area and use his son as the official. The county magistrate, Marquis Yelang, believed that his country was far away from the Han Dynasty, so he temporarily agreed, but later he repeatedly refused to accept the Han Dynasty. Later, the saying "Han Zhi and I are bigger" came into being, which became an allusion to the idiom "Yelang is arrogant" , it was not until the Han Dynasty destroyed Nanyue that the Yelang Kingdom began to enter the dynasty, and Emperor Wu was named King Yelang. "Han Shu" records that Yelang Wang Xing raised troops to rebel against the Han Dynasty in the second year of Heping (27 BC) of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty sent troops to kill him, and the Yelang country fell. Changed to counties.
The questioner's evaluation of the best answer: Default praise! The Yelang ethnic group is distributed throughout the entire Zangqi County and the southern part of Qianwei County, approximately in today's southern Sichuan, western Guizhou and the border areas of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou. It is impossible to determine when Yelang began.
Nowadays, Guizhou, Hunan, and Yunnan are very competitive. They all want to say that they are the arrogant Yelang. It’s so interesting!